On This Day In History 1809 - Louis Braille is born 1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government. 1892 - Helen Hull is born. She was the director of Henry Street Settlement House, and then appointed by FDR to the Committee on Economic Security which created the Social Security Act of 1935 and Unemployment Compensation 1896 - Utah becomes the 45th state admitted to the Union. 1905 - Sterling Holloway, the voice of Winnie the Pooh and the Cheshire cat, is born. 1911 - Charlotte E. Ray, the first female Black law school graduate, died. 1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln, also wrote The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson. 1965 - L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address. 1974 - President Nixon refused to hand over tapes. 1995 - GOP wins control of Congress for first time in 40 years. 2001 - Michael Jordan scores his 30,000th career point. 2007 - Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female Speaker of the U.S. House. Wise Words "Russia mobilizes those whom it wants to throw to their deaths, we mobilize the civilized world" âVolodymyr Zeelenskyy On the Punny Side A wizard asked me to proof read one of his scrolls last week. Actually, it was more of a Spell Check | 